Production Lines Improve with Robot Integration

Robot­ic inte­gra­tion has been one of the biggest steps in mov­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing for­ward over the last four decades. These robots have com­plete­ly changed the way that man­u­fac­tur­ers plan their pro­duc­tion lines, and they have improved the speed and accu­ra­cy dur­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing exponentially.

If you are think­ing about inte­grat­ing a robot into your facil­i­ty, there are sev­er­al dif­fer­ent things to con­sid­er. First, you need to look at the amount of space you have in your fac­to­ry. Where will the robot be mount­ed? How much reach will it have? This is impor­tant when plan­ning for the robot’s inte­gra­tion into the work­space. There may be beams, work­er walk­ways or oth­er machines that could be in the way of a robot’s motion dur­ing inte­gra­tion. This kind of detail can be worked out dur­ing vir­tu­al sim­u­la­tion, which is a prac­tice that robot­ics inte­gra­tors use to plan out the robot sys­tem pri­or to building.

Anoth­er thing to con­sid­er is what the robot will do, and how it will do it. Human hands are not like robot end effec­tors, and some­times that means that pro­duc­tion has to be re-imag­ined and trans­lat­ed to fit the robot’s move­ments and needs. This could mean that pro­duc­tion lines have to be flipped to allow for prop­er inte­gra­tion and to cater to the robot’s abil­i­ties. If you do not con­sid­er the best way for the pro­duc­tion to fit the robot, you may end up with slug­gish pro­duc­tion, which is not coher­ent with the advan­tages of boost­ed speed and accu­ra­cy that a robot is capa­ble of bring­ing to the line.

Are you inter­est­ed in inte­grat­ing a robot into your pro­duc­tion line? For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Robots​.com today online or at 877−762−6881.